Nutter: NRA ad "reprehensible, disgusting"
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Nutter: NRA ad "reprehensible, disgusting"
WASHINGTON – Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter called the NRA’s ad featuring President Obama’s daughters "reprehensible, disgusting and outside the bounds of human dignity," today.
"The NRA has reached a new low in public discourse," Nutter said at a Washington hearing in which he endorsed Obama’s calls for new gun laws.
Nutter was referring to an NRA ad that called Obama an "elitist hypocrite" for allowing the Secret Service to protect his daughters at school but for expressing skepticism at the gun-rights group’s call for putting armed guards in every school.
"Are the president's kids more important than yours," a narrator asks in the ad.
UPDATE: U.S. Rep. Jon Runyan, a South Jersey Republican, also criticized the NRA ad in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
"What this discussion does not need is what we saw today from the NRA," said Runyan, who has received electoral support from the NRA in the past. "Their ad referencing President Obama’s children was at the very least inappropriate and diverts the discussion away from the important issues."
Nutter, a longtime advocate of tougher gun laws, was at the White House for Obama’s speech today unveiling his new plan, and then spoke to sympathetic House Democrats who are also backing the president's plan.
Every year in America, he said, more than 100,000 people are shot and 11,583 are murdered. Every day, he added, 50 children and teens are shot and eight die, including five who are murdered.
"If this was disease killing that many people, if this were accidents killing that many people, if this were bags of tainted spinach killing that many people, this country would immediately take swift action to stop that kind of death toll," Nutter said. "Somehow some are seemingly paralyzed when it comes to guns and violence."
- 420Phillie - Hitler also used children for propaganda.
— VitoCorleone - Yes i'll listen to Urkel, he's been so effective reducing crime in Philthydelphia.— MilesLong1
- "The libs can't refute the facts so they resort to personal attacks."
OR I could say the NRA and Rightwing can't refute the facts so they resort to personal attacks.
4 Presidents have been shot dead in our country's short history. The fact that the NRA would conveniently forget that our President, ANY American President, past, present and future, is any American enemy's number one target.
And frankly, Obama and his family need protection from Americans gun nuts like YOU.— Phillynovafreedom - Some people's kids can have armed guards at school...but the rest of you can't. See how rational and compassionate Nutter is?— Falls Ed
- a day spent pi&^%$g off a lib is a day well spent. lol— rysagr
- reading the posts, the anger seems to be from the right. you can't do anything right, can you?
- Spending a million dollars so Occupiers can destroy the city is reprehensible and disgusting. Hoodie marches based on nothing but racist motives is reprehensible and disgusting. Obama's kids will be fine. I wish I could say the same for the city after such amateurish events.— Phillies2008WSChamps
- It's amazing how the libs like to "forget" that there is the Second Amendment. Our president talks about how the "majority" of the American People want to restrict guns. Somehow this gives him the power to violate the Constitution (the one he repeatedly promised to "defend")with Executive Orders. OK, what if the next President decides to ignore or effectively repeal by Executive Order....oh I don't know,.... The Thirteenth Amendment. How would that go over? "Oh, but that's different....." No. It's not.— SammyMaudlin
- Sammy, The Founding Fathers, or the heads of the states actually, were afraid of a STANDING FEDERAL ARMY. They didn't want to pay for it and they didn't want that threat hanging over their heads. There was also some thought that a standing army had to have something to do and wars being the best way for them to spend their time.....
The 2nd Amendment had ZERO to do with hunting or with arming the people against a tyrannical government. It was about having a military to respond to external threats available without having to pay for it.
These facts are clearly shown in the writings of those who put together the Bill of Rights.
The NRA makes billions in gun sales. This isn't about the Constitution, it's about greed. Plain and simple. And you gun nuts are just as gullible as you think Obama supporters are.— Phillynovafreedom - @PhillyNovaFree- where do get your facts from the supermarket tabloids? Give the address of the NRA store that you are so sure exists. There is none. The NRA is nothing but a union of folks sharing a common interest. It's no different then being a member of the National Hot Rod Association, a group of folks that support racing cars. It's like the AARP, a group of folks that represent retired folks. You are right about the 2nd Amendment having zero to do with hunting. The 2nd Amendment is about an idividual's freedom to defend [arm] himself/herself. The NRA has never sold even 1 gun. They don't manufacture them either. Looks like you got plenty of execise today by "running" your mouth. It's too bad that you didn't have anything truthful to feer in your anti-gun rant. You will never see the last gun, since it hasn't been invented yet. — bad joe s
- Want to save the 2ND amendment and the right to bear Arms! the Unionize all the Arms and ammo manufactories, and all gun shops! Then the Dems will fall in line to protect the Unions interests!— dan39564
- Nutter should worry a lot more about his own city which has been a ghetto mess since he took office. The murder rate, violent crime rates, uneployment and education could literally not be worse. It is a shame how bobo, and the rest of the wealthy limo liberals, use the nation's emotional reaction to a tragedy to sell their agenda. If they could not use FALSE GUILT, they would not even have anything to say - it is like if unions could not use violence...— freemarkets
It's not only reprehensible and disgusting, it's a stupid ad.
If you can't protect yourself with 10 rounds in the magazine, you have problems that nobody can solve.
This is just common sense. A nut can still do a lot of damage with 3 handguns that have 10 round clips, but this law will at least prevent the worst possible scenario.
Just imagine 4 terrorists in 4 hotel rooms each with 3 AR15 and 100 round drums on each. It would take all day to stop them, and a whole city would be forever changed. The shootings we have seen so far have been minor compared to how bad things can get.— wokmaster- Nutter knows all about being: "reprehensible, disgusting and outside the bounds of human dignity," just look at what he's doing to the City's Firefighters and their "binding arbitration" award. Mayor Nuttie has been equally reprehensible & disgusting with his treatment of the City's other 2 unions: DC33 & DC47. Nutter should not even be in Washington except to be begging for money to keep Philadelphia running. While he's palling around trying to advance his political ambitions, the City continues to: "head down the Highway to Hell".— bad joe s
Jonathan Tamari is the Inquirer’s correspondent in Washington, where he follows the Philadelphia area’s interests and representatives. Tamari comes to D.C. after two years as a beat writer reporting on the Philadelphia Eagles and the NFL (where, a political source once told him, there are at least rules against hitting below the knees). He previously wrote about politics and government from Trenton, reporting on the characters and color of New Jersey state government.Jersey born and bred, Tamari now lives in the capital city, where he is looking for stories, places to run, soccer bars and good meals.
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